Why Aren’t There More Libertarians?

In reality, a “libertarian politician” is almost a contradiction in terms, because libertarians do not initiate fraud.

When you sign up for a Fox News account to post on their Web site, they ask you to rate your political philosophy on a scale. It goes from left to right like this: Liberal-Democrat-Independent-Republican-Conservative.

This is a type of collective social engineering. There is no place on that scale for libertarian.

The conventional left-right scale represents the very close-minded foolishness that got us into this hopeless political climate.

We have a situation where the Democrats are destroying America on the one hand, and the Republicans are destroying America on the other.

In this two-party system, in which the parties switch back and forth every 30 years, we are given a false choice. It’s a predetermined collectivism exasperated by the millions of people who continually accept the status quo.

Libertarian thought founded this nation. That neither the Republicans or Democrats abide by the founding principles is sad indeed. What’s worse is the inability of the average citizen to see past the veil.

Voters have been bamboozled by decades of public school and media indoctrination, leaving them unable to break out of the two-party box, a box where the evils of one brand are really just mirrored reflections of the other.

Why is libertarianism unpopular?

Libertarian thought is internally consistent, which is one of the key defines of truth. Republicans and Democrats contradict themselves on a constant basis.

Republicans think government is incompetent, except when the government is involved in overseas actions or banning gay marriage or banning marijuana, or when they are “defending our freedom” by taking away our 3-ounce water bottles on airplanes.

Democrats think government is controlled by corporations, and hate that, and then make laws that give more and more power to corporations (like Obamacare) and ethanol mandates in gasoline (AGM) and bailing out the Wall Street Banks. The internal contradictions are vast. And they’re vastly ignored by ignorant Americans.

Libertarians despise cronyism, collectivist mentality, force, and fraud. And they STICK to that, always. Even when it’s unpopular.

Libertarians have trouble getting the message of truth out in part because MSNBC and Fox do everything they can to neuter the movement.

In part because education in the US has utterly failed to teach liberty concepts. And in part because libertarians are generally humble (in that although they are confident they are right, they don’t force their ways on others, but only fight to prevent others from forcing their will on others).

Therefore libertarian politicians don’t have the narcissism and desire to lie. They are not positioned on a platform of fraud and aggression, which is almost a perquisite to getting elected in modern America.

The truth is the libertarian moment is alive and growing. But libertarianism disempowers government.

Too many Americans think they want limited government, but only when it suits their political or social bias. They do not adhere to consistent principles of liberty. They are perfectly fine with the initiation of force or fraud in order to fulfill their desired agenda, principled or not.

Additionally, there are too many Americans relying on the government. To vote against the power of the tyranny is to vote against their very livelihoods. It is a vicious cycle that permeates America—and it includes individuals, large corporations, special interest groups, giant bureaucratic agencies, and bloated military branches.

Too many rely on the “earning” of fraudulent money to break that cycle.

Libertarianism will remain unpopular as long as the majority of Americans line up under the status quo, cast their ‘vote,’ and continually empower the system of fraud and force.

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Justin O'Donnell is a fiction writer who holds bachelor's degrees in history and English. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Professional and Creative Writing from Western Connecticut State University. When Justin isn't working on his novel, he enjoys blogging on a wide variety of topics, including religion, fitness, and politics.

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